Sublime

A private world of women, guarding their sanctuary. Nuns in sackcloth living in huts near a riverbank. That’s what it reminds him of.

with his passing, there remained only one Perfect still at large in the Languedoc. William Bélibaste was from the Corbières who, sometime before Easter 1305, had killed a fellow shepherd.

The so-called Walesby cistern, one of several late Romano-British lead ceremonial tanks found particularly across the East Midlands and East Anglia, appears to depict the induction into such a congregation of a female catechumen or baptismal candidate, flanked by two other officiating women.3 One of the striking painted figures on a frieze in a pri

Two ideas permeate the Rule of Benedict: love and wisdom. Love is the motive; wisdom is the goal and the Way.

Freud was a modern alchemist who reformulated medieval demons as complexes and Darwinian imperatives. He translated all things devilish - lust, violence, cruelty - into terms that were compatible with twentieth-century thinking.

But in the aftermath of Jesus’ death, their survival is haunted by Jesus’ words of farewell and his instructions about remaining. Survival is given shape through the curious imperative to remain and to love.